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Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
From: |
Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: suggestion for set-file-modes |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:07:54 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> > Maybe a more intuitive thing we can do is to prompt the following :
>>> >
>>> > "File modes, octal or symbolic (current: -r-xrw---):"
>>>
>>> This form is exactly what I had in mind. This format is familiar to
>>> people from "ls -l". If users request something else, it can be changed
>>> later, but this should do for now. Obviously, this is all IMHO...
>>
>> Following that proposition, on which we agreed, here's a patch.
>
> This is very nice, but why you don't accept this string in the same format
> allowing the user to enter it in the minibuffer (i.e. why you didn't
> implement `file-modes-ls-to-number')?
Well, I've never seen anyone (or any tool) using that notation to *set*
file modes. Yes, it will allow Emacs to tend to more completeness, but
I think Emacs goal lays more in usefulness.
Do you have any practical case in which that notation could be more
natural?
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- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/11
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes,
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- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17